If you are a computer science student or even if you’re not but if you have that dream of working in one of the top tech companies. The interviews of these top tech companies might seem difficult to clear. But in today’s article, I want to share with you one of the best ways for you to prepare for your coding interviews. You want to get that tech job, you want to crack the coding interview. You want to get better at DSA skills. I want to show you exactly how to do that with the help of Geeksforgeeks.
As you all know, Geeksforgeeks is one of the biggest platforms to get better at software development in general. They have some of the biggest article libraries through which you can get better. You can learn about software development in general. And I want to show you a great for you to practice and hone in your DSA skills with the help of the Geeksforgeeks website. Let me show you exactly how this works and how you can take advantage of it. The best part is it’s completely free and if you read this article till the end, I’ll actually show you how to make money by contributing to Geeksforgeeks.
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Geeksforgeeks Platform to crack your interviews
This is a great place for you to practice your DSA skills by attempting questions and getting feedback, looking at other people’s solutions, and getting better in general. Now you can actually look at data structures problems, algorithm questions, interview problems from companies like Amazon, Samsung, Microsoft. And you can also look at courses that are completely free so you can learn basics about Java, Python, C++, and many courses right there.
Practice here : https://practice.geeksforgeeks.org/
Let’s take one interview problem
Now I just give you a quick example of what you can do. So let’s just go to data structures. I’ll take a look at Arrays. Let’s take this problem called the Largest element in an array. So this is a problem that you need to solve. This is a problem called as a Largest element in an array. You can take a look at the accuracy for this question. The submissions are 88,000 people and how many points will you get when you solve this problem right here. You can take a look at the description of what exactly do you need to solve. Also you can take a look at some examples. The input, output, and the explanation for the same. When you go down you will also find the constraints that you need to take care of. So this is the basics. Now you need to solve this problem. Choose what language you want to solve this problem in, so I’ll just go with Java. But you can choose other languages as you can see on the screen as well.
Here is where you will be solving this problem, so I will just quickly solve this for you right now.
Solution
So this is just a simple solution for this problem right here, and I can now click on submit. The problem has been solved successfully. Our solution has passed all the test cases and that is what you can do with the help of Geeksforgeeks. Now let’s say you tried out a problem, you could not exactly solve it. Or even if you did solve it, it’s always a good practice for you to take a look at the editorial section. This is where you can go to find the solution of this problem. And you can also get some additional from which you can learn exactly how to approach this particular problem. This is a great way for you to learn about the best way to solve a particular problem. You can also take a look at submissions of yourself and of other people as well. You can find other people’s solutions in different languages there.
The doubt support section is also available to clear your doubts if you have any. But this is how you solve problems on Geeksforgeeks. You can solve hundreds and even thousands of problems that they have on this platform for completely free. You can get better with solving interview problem and get a better chance of cracking these top tech companies, but that’s not it. Let me show you another way in which you can solve problems and actually get amazing perks at the same time.
How to get free perks solving by solving problems on Geeksforgeeks
Over there you find this section called as Problem Of The Day. When you click that you will get a problem that you need to solve. So every single day they will be coming up with one problem that you need to complete and when you solve this problem you will get one geek bit. Suppose you solve fifty of these problems, you will be having 50 geek bits. Then you can get a lot of parks in return. So as you can see, once you get 50 geek bits, you will be eligible to redeem all of these prices like you can get T-shirts, bags. You can get discounts on GFG courses. You can get Amazon vouchers and even also get annual premium membership of Geeksforgeeks.
This is a great way for you to learn, get better at solving interview problems and get rewarded at the same time which is just amazing. Also there is another way that you can get rewarded and that is with the help of contributing. Let me show you what I mean by that.
Contributing to Geeksforgeeks
As you already know, Geeksforgeeks has a lot of articles from which you can learn about software development. Now you can also contribute to Geeksforgeeks by writing articles for them. So this is a place that explains exactly how can you start. Content writing, technical content writing at Geeksforgeeks. You can also contribute videos and you can also share your interview experiences. This is a great way for you to share your learnings and you can also get rewarded. How do you get rewarded? Let’s take a look at the benefits that they have.
Benefits of contributing to Geeksforgeeks
Now when you start contributing to Geeksforgeeks, you will be eligible for a work from home internship. You will get paid for every single article that you write once it gets accepted. You can also become a Geeksforgeeks campus ambassador at your college and you get a chance to get a full-time job. This is a great way for you to contribute, for you to learn and contribute at the same time. So these are the three main things that you should be focusing on in Geeksforgeeks.
I hope this article was insightful.You can take a look at exactly what topic you should be choosing to write at Geeksforgeeks.
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